性行为的基本类型

性交合的技巧 6

在过去，一些主张禁欲的基督教文化要求其信徒只用一种体位进行性交合：面对面、女方仰卧和男方躺于女方之上的体位。（较少有禁忌的非洲、亚洲和太平洋岛屿的“异教徒”习惯于把这种体位嘲笑为“传教士体位”。）不过，随着19世纪文化交流的增加，欧洲人和美洲人意识到对性的处事方法存在不必要的僵化态度。他们为了探索出崭新而令人兴奋的性交合体位，开始研究古希腊的花瓶画、罗马的壁画、中国的卷轴春宫画、日本的版画[1]和印度的做爱手册，而且他们的研究发现不久就使他们相信，他们已经找到了长期被遗失的真正达到性满足的秘诀。

性交合技巧：东方与西方
这幅18世纪印度绘画显示一名印度女子与一名欧洲男子以“传教士体位”做爱。

不过，虽然在性的事物方面采取僵化和循规蹈矩的方式毋庸置疑地有害，但是，在每一种体位变换和缠绵中不存在什么特别的魔法。也不存在什么终极的、高超的甚或“自然的”或“正常的”性交合体位这样的东西。毕竟，富有创造力的、为设法满足自己所有需要与性欲望的性伴侣自然会随着境况的不同调整他们的做爱方式，并因而继续以他们自己的方式找到新的性交合体位。详细地描述这样的性交合体位是没有必要的，而且甚至可能是有害的，因为这有鼓励机械主义性交合观点之虞。

甚至可以说，列举出任何性交合体位的清单并清晰地做出定义也许根本就是不明智的。性交合在任何时候或任何情况下都涉及到一连串的动作，并形成一个连续的整体。而且大多数性伴侣在未有预先计划或没有刻意努力之下，会从一种体位转换到另一种体位。如果挑选10种、12种、20种或更多特殊性交合姿势并把其特殊的含义一一加以描述，则似乎书生气十足。当然，他可能在少数基本的性交合处事方法之间做出区分，但是其种类实在是十分有限：性伴可以站着、坐着或躺着；他们可能面对面，或女方可能背朝男方；要么男方可能在上方，要么他们两人都侧卧。

[1]. 作者在此指的是日本的浮世绘。浮世绘是日本德川时代版画主要艺术品种，作品主角是娼妓和艺伎，女性、裸体、性感、色情是其标志性的特征。“浮世”一词自佛教用语，本意指人的生死轮回和人世的虚无飘渺。日语中自“浮世”一词出现开始，就暗指艳事与放荡生活之意。——译者注。

2. Heterosexual Intercourse: Genital Intercourse

Coitus

Techniques of Coitus 6
In the past, some puritanical Christian cultures expected the faithful to have coitus in only one position: Face-to-face, with the woman lying on her back and the man on top of her. (The less

 inhibited "heathens" of Africa, Asia, and the Pacific Islands used to ridicule it as the "missionary position".) However, with the increase of cross-cultural contact in the 19th century, Europeans and Americans realized that their approach to sex was unnecessarily rigid. They began to search ancient Greek vase paintings, Roman murals, Chinese scrolls, Japanese woodcuts, and Indian love manuals for new, exciting coital positions, and their discoveries soon led them to believe that they had found the long lost secrets of true sexual fulfillment.

However, while rigidity and routine in sexual matters are undoubtedly bad, there is no special magic in ever-varying athletic contortions. Nor is there such a thing as the ultimate, superior, or even “natural” or “normal” position for coitus. After all, imaginative sexual partners who try to satisfy all of their needs and desires will vary their approaches spontaneously as the circumstances require, and thus they will continue to find new coital positions on their own. Detailed descriptions of such positions are unnecessary and may even be harmful because they tend to encourage a mechanistic view of coitus.
Indeed, it is perhaps unwise to list any distinct and clearly defined coital positions at all. Coitus always involves a series of movements which form a continuous whole, and most partners shift from one position to another without any advance planning or conscious effort. It seems pedantic to single out 10, 12, 20, or more particular postures and to ascribe to each of them some special meaning. One can, of course, differentiate between a few basic approaches to coitus, but their number is really quite limited: the partners may stand, sit, or lie down; they may face each other, or the woman may turn her back to the man; either partner can be on top, or they can both lie on their sides.